S.W.B. Folsom

* Delta Company, 1st LAR Battalion

Don’t let him cinch down the tourniquet until they scream.

Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division
“Standard Bearers”
August 2020–August 2022

Task Force Lion
February 2017–April 2018
Operation Inherent Resolve

3rd Battalion, 7th Marines
“The Cutting Edge”
March 2011–June 2012
Operation Enduring Freedom

Military Transition Team 0733 “Outlanders”
October 2007–August 2008
Operation Iraqi Freedom

Delta Company Company
“Dragons”
April 2001–May 2003
Operation Iraqi Freedom

1st Platoon, Alpha Company, 1st LAR Battalion
“Apaches”
January 1996–December 1997
WESTPAC, 1997

Happy 250th Birthday to all the Marines and sailors I served with.

A thread…

20 years after we met and became instant friends, I was grateful for the opportunity to catch up with my good friend, Dr. Philip W. Blood, on his podcast, “The Historian’s Stammtisch.” He asked some hard questions, and I was happy to answer them.

Same mold as the tie cake.

Seems timely.

All-time greatest recruiting poster.

Sorry, but David Lynch’s “Wild at Heart” is how I will always remember Diane Ladd.

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SoCal Folsoms off to celebrate the Marine Corps’ 250th birthday at the I MEF Birthday Ball.

One more reason why I quit the bad place.

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Happy SoCal Halloween from Immortan Joe and your friendly neighborhood witch!

Unlicensed nuclear accelerator.

I'm conscious I promised a review of @swbfolsom.bsky.social's "Where Youth and Laughter Go" and have singularly failed to deliver this.

Suffice to say, this is an excellent memoir of a battalion commander, written in a reasoned, sober and truly 'warts and all' manner

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Thank you for the kind words… I’m happy you enjoyed it!

Only on KHOU 11 | Shenandoah officer recounts rescuing 11-year-old during mental health crisis on I-45 overpass Body camera footage shows the officer calmly approaching the girl before pulling her to safety from the overpass guardrail.

Patrick Reade was one of my 3/7 Marines in 2011. 14 years later, he is still doing what the Cutting Edge is famous for: putting the safety and wellbeing of others before himself. I am proud beyond words to have served with this Marine.

Looks like the same stealthy bastard that’s tearing up my yard every night.

Six more days ‘til Halloween.

Thanks… you just gave me shitty flashbacks to 2011-12 Sangin. Nothing like the operators in the black helicopters cutting an unannounced op box in your AO and leaving a mess behind for you to deal with the next day when you face the district elders.